Karl Popper Quotes
Bold ideas, unjustified anticipations, and speculative thought, are our only means for interpreting nature: our only organon, our only instrument, for grasping her. And we must hazard them to win our prize. Those among us who are unwilling to expose their ideas to the hazard of refutation do not take part in the scientific game.
Quotes to Explore
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Comparing in the past years, Tamyra Gray and everyone else that didn't win but their careers are doing well.
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It's an honor to live on a legacy, getting to do what we love to do and try to be the best musicians that we can possibly be.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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When I first read 'The River,' I had theories on what it was about, but once we got into rehearsal, I realized it's much simpler: It's about how human beings try to connect. The play holds a mirror up to the audience, and they take from it what's relevant to their lives.
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What I am going to tell you is this: Although it is commonly believed that the War on Terrorism is a noble effort to defend freedom, in reality, it has little to do with terrorism and even less to do with the defense of freedom.
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I wear Rick Owens T-shirts to bed. They are like my thermals, since I sleep with the room at near freezing temperatures, like a meat locker.
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I love doing serious movies for adults.
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I would love to do something like 'Fishing With John.'
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We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past.
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If a man had more than one life, I think a little hanging would not hurt this one; but after he is once dead, we cannot bring him back, no matter how sorry we may be; so the boy shall be pardoned.
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I'm too obsessed that the people who say critical things about me are right, even though I'm getting to do something I love.
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From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be.
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Even if it's a white crowd, I tell my jokes for the four black people in the room, not the 100 whites.
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I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness.
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I'm really pragmatic. That's my reality.
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Football is a bit like chess: it's not just the piece being moved that matters; it's also the effect that move has on all the other pieces.
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I was asleep, in the upstairs bedroom, in the rear of the house. There was this tremendous crash, there was a terrible wind force hitting my body, and then I blanked out.
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She was my closest friend. She was the one person, other than my husband, I could turn to in a crisis. There was a lot of resentment when I first came to town. But Patsy was strong-willed and always taking up for me. If it hadn't been for her, I don't think I would have lasted.
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Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
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When you really want something, and you couple that with an understanding of your nature, of your spiritual being, and the laws that govern you, you will keep going, regardless of what's happened. Nothing will stop you.
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Bold ideas, unjustified anticipations, and speculative thought, are our only means for interpreting nature: our only organon, our only instrument, for grasping her. And we must hazard them to win our prize. Those among us who are unwilling to expose their ideas to the hazard of refutation do not take part in the scientific game.
